I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
SAINT AUGUSTINELord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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The measure of love is to love without measure.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.
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